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reply "akaz" <akaz utopia.com> writes:
According to Wikipedia:

"Phobos (Ancient Greek: Φόβος, pronounced [pʰóbos], 
meaning "fear" or "terror") is the personification of fear in 
Greek mythology."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)

I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear???? 
Terror????
Jul 31 2012
next sibling parent reply "akaz" <akaz utopia.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:16:57 UTC, akaz wrote:

 I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear????


surprisingly -> surprising. sorry.
Jul 31 2012
parent Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:18 PM, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:


 On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:16:57 UTC, akaz wrote:


 I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear????


 surprisingly -> surprising. sorry.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(moon)
It's the name of one of Mars's moons.
Why Mars? Because Digital Mars.
www.digitalmars.com

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply Tobias Brandt <tob.brandt googlemail.com> writes:
On 31 July 2012 15:16, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:

 According to Wikipedia:

 "Phobos (Ancient Greek: =CE=A6=CF=8C=CE=B2=CE=BF=CF=82, pronounced [p=CA=


=B0=C3=B3bos], meaning "fear" or

 "terror") is the personification of fear in Greek mythology."

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)

 I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear???? Terror????


Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars, which was the original name of=
 D.
Jul 31 2012
parent reply "akaz" <akaz utopia.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:22:57 UTC, Tobias Brandt wrote:

 On 31 July 2012 15:16, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:
 Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars, which was the 
 original name of D.


That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, 
was the "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been 
renamed to Deimos? :)

By the way, I live in the same city as this guy here. So you may 
say that I live with Phobos over my head:

http://davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr/2012/05/scale-of-phobos.html

Pretty... scary, isn't?
Jul 31 2012
next sibling parent Gor Gyolchanyan <gor.f.gyolchanyan gmail.com> writes:
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 5:28 PM, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:


 On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:22:57 UTC, Tobias Brandt wrote:


 On 31 July 2012 15:16, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:
 Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars, which was the original name
 of D.


 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, was the
 "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been renamed to Deimos? :)

 By the way, I live in the same city as this guy here. So you may say that
 I live with Phobos over my head:

 http://davinci-marsdesign.**blogspot.fr/2012/05/scale-of-**phobos.html<http://davinci-marsdesign.blogspot.fr/2012/05/scale-of-phobos.html>

 Pretty... scary, isn't?


Deimos was mentioned because it's the name of C library bindings package.

-- 
Bye,
Gor Gyolchanyan.
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent reply "akaz" <akaz utopia.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:28:35 UTC, akaz wrote:

 On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 13:22:57 UTC, Tobias Brandt wrote:

 On 31 July 2012 15:16, akaz <akaz utopia.com> wrote:
 Phobos and Deimos are the two moons of Mars, which was the 
 original name of D.


 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, 
 was the "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been 
 renamed to Deimos? :)


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deimos_(moon)

OMG: "It is named after Deimos, a figure representing dread in 
Greek Mythology."

C'mon, Mars was really the God of War... His moons really show it.

Fear&Dread????
Jul 31 2012
parent Joseph Rushton Wakeling <joseph.wakeling webdrake.net> writes:
On 31/07/12 14:32, akaz wrote:

 Fear&Dread????


D: striking fear and dread into all other programming languages since 1893. ;-)
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling parent reply "Dejan Lekic" <dejan.lekic gmail.com> writes:
 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, 
 was the "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been 
 renamed to Deimos? :)


What do you think where the term "PHOBia" came from??
Jul 31 2012
next sibling parent Andrei Alexandrescu <SeeWebsiteForEmail erdani.org> writes:
On 7/31/12 10:31 AM, Dejan Lekic wrote:

 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, was the
 "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been renamed to Deimos? :)


 What do you think where the term "PHOBia" came from??


Whoa! Good point. Now if we could tie all this with Pho soup...

Andrei
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling next sibling parent "akaz" <nemo utopia.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 14:32:01 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, 
 was the "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been 
 renamed to Deimos? :)


 What do you think where the term "PHOBia" came from??


That, for one, I missed it! Thanks!
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling parent "akaz" <nemo utopia.com> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 14:32:01 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote:

 That, on the other hand, was known to me. What I did not know, 
 was the "fear" factor... Maybe the library should have been 
 renamed to Deimos? :)


 What do you think where the term "PHOBia" came from??


And what about PHOBos? (PHOB Operating System)

Just kidding. I stop here.
Jul 31 2012
prev sibling parent reply Nick Sabalausky <SeeWebsiteToContactMe semitwist.com> writes:
On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:16:56 +0200
"akaz" <akaz utopia.com> wrote:


 According to Wikipedia:
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=B0=C3=B3bos],=20

 meaning "fear" or "terror") is the personification of fear in=20
 Greek mythology."
=20
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phobos_(mythology)
=20
 I just discovered that. I find it surprisingly. Fear????=20
 Terror????
=20


"Phobos and Deimos ("fear" and "dread")"

That's really awesome, actually. C++/Java/Python and the like should
PHear us :)

So does that make one of the Deimos maintainers Judge Dredd?
Jul 31 2012
parent "nazriel" <spam dzfl.pl> writes:
On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 23:06:04 UTC, Nick Sabalausky wrote:

 On Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:16:56 +0200
 "akaz" <akaz utopia.com> wrote:

 So does that make one of the Deimos maintainers Judge Dredd?


Ahahahaha, I used to say that some of Phobos contributors are 
Judge Dredd :>
Aug 01 2012